by Jim Heath | Nov 18, 2020 | Headlines, History, Joe Biden, Trump
President-elect Joe Biden has made no secret that he wants to reverse course on a host of President Trump’s initiatives as soon as he’s sworn in next January. But can he restore Air Force One to its classic color scheme — after Trump set about changing it...
by Jim Heath | Nov 17, 2020 | 2020, Battlegrounds, Headlines, Joe Biden, Trump
The board of canvassers in Michigan’s largest county reversed course late tonight, voting unanimously to certify the election results after initially being deadlocked in a party-line vote. For a short time, Republicans were following Donald Trump’s lead making...
by Jim Heath | Nov 15, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health, Joe Biden
Two of President-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus advisers said they favor targeted local measures to stem the pandemic and oppose a nationwide U.S. lockdown as too blunt. Vivek Murthy, a former U.S. surgeon general who’s one of Biden’s top three advisers on the virus,...
by Jim Heath | Nov 15, 2020 | 2020, Analysis, Headlines, Joe Biden, Trump
Are you better off than you were four years ago? That question has been at the heart of presidential campaigns since President Ronald Reagan first asked it in 1980. The general thinking has been that voters who are doing well would vote to reelect a sitting president....
by Jim Heath | Nov 13, 2020 | 2020, Battlegrounds, Headlines, Joe Biden
Joe Biden is the projected winner of Georgia’s 16 electoral votes, bringing an end to the 2020 presidential election. The former vice president has flipped a state Republicans have won in presidential elections since 1996. Georgia is now conducting a statewide...
by Jim Heath | Nov 11, 2020 | 2020, Headlines, Joe Biden, Trump
Inside Detroit’s absentee-ballot-counting center, one Republican poll watcher complained that workers were wearing Black Lives Matter gear. She thought one of them — a “man of intimidating size” — had followed her too closely. Another Republican poll watcher...
